The 2016 coins are the rarest out there, but there have since been additional releases in 2017 and 2018, with coins featuring Flopsy Bunny, Mrs Tittlemouse, The Tailor of Gloucester and a new Peter Rabbit design. In 2016, The Royal Mint released a collection of special 50p coins to mark 150 years since the birth of Beatrix Potter. This coin was released to celebrate Beatrix Potter’s life, and the coin features the dates 1866 to 1943, with Peter Rabbit at the centre.

The World of Peter Rabbit: The Complete 23 Book Collection

One of the most sought-after coins at the moment are the various Beatrix Potter 50p collections out there. While they will not be entering circulation, each coin is bound to be very popular when they go on sale, following the success of its predecessors. The limited edition coins showed characters from the author’s iconic children’s story, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, with Peter Rabbit the most popular (and most valuable) coins in the series.The Royal Mint has released a new commemorative coin featuring Beatrix Potter's character Peter Rabbit. Beatrix Potter was born in London in 1866. During her rather lonely childhood and later, as a young woman, she studied art and natural history. She acquired her love and knowledge of the countryside during family holidays, at first in Scotland and then in the Lake District. She started her career as children's author and illustrator in 1901 when she was thirty-five. In the years before the First World War, demand for her work was so great that she was publishing an average of two new stories a year. As she became financially independent, she was able to buy some land in the Lake District and in 1913, on her marriage to solicitor William Heelis, she moved to live there permanently. For the last thirty years of her life, writing and illustrating gave place to a second career as a sheep farmer and countryside conservationist. Not only are they rather lovely to look at and collect, but some go for quite a bit of money. Here are all the coins out there to complete your collection.